It is a time of fear in the face of freedom, a time of an emptying country and swelling cities, a time for the widening of previous roads and the opening of new paths, yet a time when these paths are mined by knowing algorithms of the all-seeing eye. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection. These are the times when maps fade, old landmarks crumble and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread. Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times.

Committee: Vote David Walker for President First. You’ll get his Policy Ideas later.

The campaign to Draft David Walker for President is an awfully strange one in many ways, right down to David Walker himself making an appearance on national TV to declare that he wasn’t running for president, and he wasn’t encouraging anyone to vote for him for president, except back when he repeatedly did, but anyway he’d consider it if anyone were to start a draft campaign to make him a presidential candidate, and look, here’s some colleagues of his from Americans Elect and the Concord Coalition who have done just that.

The latest strangeness in the Draft Walker story comes from the twitter account of the Draft Walker Campaign, which is declining to share the policy ideas of David Walker when asked. The pitch: just vote for David Walker first. After he wins, then you can find out what he stands for!

People on this board have been saying AE is a joke and criticizing Rocky Anderson for attempting to use AE to get ballot access. While I reject the criticism of Anderson, I agreed previously that AE seemed like, well, a joke. A couple of days ago, AE told me that I can’t vote for Anderson because they couldn’t verify my identity after I made three unsuccessful tries to convince them of my identify. This is conclusive proof, if any was needed, that AE is a fraud. People in the Anderson campaign, including me, are considering suing.

Yep, the hand that rocks the server rigs the vote, Charles. Unfortunately, if AECorp has nothing else (and, indeed, it has nothing else) it has really good lawyers (an oxymoron?) and the money to keep them running day and night. Many of us around here have learned, from hard experience, that the only way to actually beat AECorp is to humiliate it, and to educate its prospective prey before it can consume them.

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